单词 | what needs ? |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat needs (it)? b. what needs (it)?: what need is there (for someone to do something)? extracted from needv.2ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvii. 30 (MED) What neded it þanne a newe lawe to bigynne? ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 138v (MED) For what nedeþ to put a mundificatiue in a wounde þer as is no quiture..y wote neuer. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii*v Quhat nedis said spinagrus sic notis to nevin. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. Prol. 172 Quhat nedis avant ȝou of ȝour wykkytnes? 1537 W. Turner tr. Urbanus Regius Compar. Olde Learnynge & Newe sig. G.viiv Yf it had ben sufficient vnto vs, to haue holy men, excellyng both in witte and in learninge to rule the church or congregation: what nede it to orden the canon of scripture. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. Ep. King What needeth to alledge one sentence of him? 1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detect. Marie Quene of Scottes (1727) 7 How loftily and disdaynfully scho behauit hirself to the King, what neid it be reheirsit? 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 92 So to fill vp bookes both backe and side What needs it? Are there not enow beside. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 69 Seeke onely Vertue, not to extend your Limits; for what needs? a1764 C. Churchill Farewell in Poems (1933) II. 399 To men of sense what needs it to unfold, And tell a tale which they must know untold? 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xii. 182 But what needs tell the story, told too oft,..of heart-strings rent and broken. (b) intransitive. With dependent finite clause or without complement. Chiefly Scottish in later use. ΚΠ c1660 S. Rutherford Christs Napkin 7 As if one speared at John who is he that sits upon the throne? He would have answered, what needs you spear? 1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) iv. 26 What needs ye speak so loud? 1821 R. H. Dana Paul Felton in Poems & Prose Writings (1833) 342 D'ye hear me, and will not answer?—Nay, nay, what needs it? This tells me, though it speaks not. 1826 A. Balfour Highland Mary I. 211 What needs I tell you what you ken? 1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iii. 239 Ah, cannot two share it [sc. solitude]? What needs it for this?—The same thought in both hearts,—be it sorrow or bliss! 1884 R. F. Hardy Glenairlie 85 What needs ye hae put yersel' in sic a kippage? 1893 E. C. Dowson Pierrot of Minute 37 Pierrot. To complete the plan, Nothing is necessary save a fan. The Lady. Cool is the night, what needs it? 1962 in Sc. National Dict. VI. 400/3 Fat needs ye aye leave the door open? < as lemmas |
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